Improvement in fishing apparatus for vessels



C. BREWSTER.

Fishing Apparatus for Vessels.

Patented Sept.22,1874.

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` @www 'UNITED STATES CHARLES BBEWSTER,

OF OBLAND, MAINE.

IMPROVE'MENT IN FISHING APPARATUS FOR VESSELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,140, datedSeptember 22,1874; application tiled April 4,1874.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES BREwsrER, of Orland, in the county ofHancock and State of Maine, have invented a Fishing-Machine, of whichthe following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to catch sh in bays, harbors, rivers, andtideways by impounding.

I have constructed my machine so that it can be used by attaching it toa vessel; and the construction of said machine is fully explained andshown by the accompanying drawings.

The machine is illustrated in detail in plan View, Figure 1, and in thecross-sectional View, Fig.

The machine is constructed with two pounds, made ot' marline, the largerof which is forty feet from its mouth to the mouth of the smaller pound.The smaller pound is twenty feet from its mouth to the end of the pound.These pounds are connected, and are attached to a frame made of wood andiron. That part of the frame that forms and shapes the mouth of thelargest pound is represented in Figs. 1 and 2 by the letters A B C D,and consists of a wooden beam, as represented in Fig. 2 by letters A B,and a wooden beam, as represented in same figure by letters C D. Thesebeams are forty feet in length, 4and are connected by iron rods, whichform the sides of said frame, and are represented by letters A C and B Din Fig. 2. Said rods are sixteen feet in length. The frame A B C D inFig. l is `joined to E K F, which is constructed in same manner as A B CD in said Fig. 1. Said E K F is covered by marline, which forms a hedge,and said frame, as represented by A B C D and E K F, attaches to thevessel by an iron shank fastened to said vessel by eyebolts. SaidY shankis represented by lines from the point.

F to the stem of the vessel V. The frame is held in place and regulatedby guys that extend from the points A V B V G V D V.

The machine is regulated as to its depth in the water by shortening upon the guys, which causes the iron shank which attaches the frame to thevessel to turn in the eyebolts, and thus presses the frame under water.The semicircular brace at K connects the frame and strengthens it.

The largest pound is represented in Fig. 1 by G B C I) A, the smallerpound by H LJ, and both pounds are represented by I J D A and I L B C.

The mouth of the larger pound is opened and closed by pulleys runningfrom A D and B U in Fig. l, and made fast at points A and B. The machineis attached to the iron rods by rings.

The machine can be iioated by bnoys, or sunk by Weights, when necessary.

I claim as my invention- `l. In a fishing attachment for vessels, thecombination of the net-frame A B C D E F with .a connecting metal shank,substantially as described and shown.

2. In combination with the netframe A B C D E F, the nets or pounds I JD A I L B C, and the guys A-V B V C V D V, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

3. In combination with the net-frame A. to F, and the pounds I J D A I LB C, the rings connecting the nets and frame,'substantially as hereindescribed and shown.

CHARLES BREWSTER.

Vitnesses JOSEPH L. SWAGG, 1V. H. PILsBURY.

